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Sir Francis Leybourne:
[the Attache is sobbing]
I thought you people were supposed to be inscrutable? Chinese Trade Attache:
Please, Sir Francis, China doesn't want any more opium. Sir Francis Leybourne:
Oh, do be sensible. You chaps have already lost one war with Great Britain about this. Chinese Trade Attache:
But to force us to buy it... Sir Francis Leybourne:
Well, you signed a treaty agreeing to! Chinese Trade Attache:
Your gunboats were right up our Yangtze! Sir Francis Leybourne:
No use getting hysterical, Mr Feng. Chinese Trade Attache:
Then let me appeal to our friendship; those happy weekends I used to spend at your townhouse; your late wife was always so kind to me. More than kind. She... Sir Francis Leybourne:
She was an eccentric about the inferior races. My dear fellow, I've put a lot of money into that opium plantation. Damn it, it's hard enough to get the Indians to harvest the stuff. Blasted natives! You pay them two pounds ten a year and they're useless. Chinese Trade Attache:
If you could see what the opium does to our people; they lie about the streets like dead flies. Sir Francis Leybourne:
Well, get them to use a little self-discipline, man. Self control - works wonders. Look at the English!
[the Attache is sobbing]
I thought you people were supposed to be inscrutable? Chinese Trade Attache:
Please, Sir Francis, China doesn't want any more opium. Sir Francis Leybourne:
Oh, do be sensible. You chaps have already lost one war with Great Britain about this. Chinese Trade Attache:
But to force us to buy it... Sir Francis Leybourne:
Well, you signed a treaty agreeing to! Chinese Trade Attache:
Your gunboats were right up our Yangtze! Sir Francis Leybourne:
No use getting hysterical, Mr Feng. Chinese Trade Attache:
Then let me appeal to our friendship; those happy weekends I used to spend at your townhouse; your late wife was always so kind to me. More than kind. She... Sir Francis Leybourne:
She was an eccentric about the inferior races. My dear fellow, I've put a lot of money into that opium plantation. Damn it, it's hard enough to get the Indians to harvest the stuff. Blasted natives! You pay them two pounds ten a year and they're useless. Chinese Trade Attache:
If you could see what the opium does to our people; they lie about the streets like dead flies. Sir Francis Leybourne:
Well, get them to use a little self-discipline, man. Self control - works wonders. Look at the English!
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I thought you people were supposed to be inscrutable
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Please Sir Francis
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China doesn't want anymore opium
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Oh do be sensible you chaps have already lost one war
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with Great Britain about this
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But to force us to buy it
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Well you signed a treaty agreeing to
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Your gunboats were right up our Yangtze
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No use getting hysterical Mr Fang
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Then let me appeal to our friendship
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those happy weekends I used to spend at your townhouse
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Hmm
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Your late wife was always so
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kind to me more than kind She
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Uh she was eccentric about the inferior races
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My dear fellow I have put a lot of money
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into that opium plantation
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Damn it it's hard enough to get the Indians
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to harvest the stuff
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Movie Summary
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

